FULL SPEECH: Guterres Delivers Veiled Jab
SAYS 'Their Power Isn't So Super' Stuns UN
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the 81st session of the UN General Assembly's General Debate, warning that global fault lines are widening into canyons and describing a world confronting simultaneous crises in war, inequality, climate change and artificial intelligence that he framed as interconnected tests of how power is exercised in the twenty-first century.
Guterres called on superpowers to recognise that their power has limits, stating that military power alone cannot secure peace, economic power alone cannot command stability, and technological power
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division of the world into rival economic, technological and security blocs, advocating instead for what he called networked multipolarity built on interdependence and shared international law. He called for reform of the UN Security Council to reflect contemporary global realities, specifically criticising the continued absence of permanent African representation as unjust and indefensible, and addressed multiple ongoing conflicts including the war in Gaza, which he described as involving a scale of killing and destruction unlike anything he has witnessed during his tenure, alongside Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which he characterised as a blatant violation of the UN Charter, as well as escalating crises in Sudan and Myanmar. On climate policy, Guterres noted that five major Western oil companies have accumulated nearly half a trillion dollars in profits since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, compared with just 34 billion dollars in international public adaptation finance for developing countries, calling for developed nations to triple adaptation funding and strengthen the Loss and Damage Fund. He additionally called intelligence, warning against the use of autonomous weapons systems and insisting that life-and-death decisions must never be surrendered to machines, while confirming the UN has achieved gender parity across senior leadership positions for the first time in its history.
Guterres, delivering what he noted would be among his final addresses before departing office in approximately 100 days, closed by reaffirming his commitment to the principles of the UN Charter and pledging to continue advocating for the primacy of international law over the exercise of unchecked power.
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